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Thursday, 10 July 2014

Believing what Jesus says

How many people are really willing to believe what Jesus says. In Christendom we do find many Christians who prefer to keep to the traditional doctrines of the doctrinal churches, instead of willing to take the words of the Bible like they are written there.

The barrier to fully accepting Jesus’ words is the cost
involved in following him and his teachings. To follow his teachings, and the
teaching of the Bible at large, requires a different type of focus. That is,
one not focussed upon material or present benefits, but rather upon following
the truths of God no matter what the present cost, because something far
greater has been purposed and promised by God.

You as a Christian or as a unbeliever, what do you want to come to believe? Where do you want to put your focus?

What does it mean to you when Jesus says God is greater than him? What does it mean when he says we do have to pray to God his Father and do not may worship him, but should give all honour to the Only One Divine God, Creator of heaven and earth?

Jesus concentrated himself on the words and works of his heavenly Father and asked others not to focus on his (Jesus) works, because he (Jesus) could do nothing without his Father. Jesus his focus was on his heavenly Father who had appeared above him and had spoken "This is my beloved son." How many Christians are willing to accept those words of God Who spoke about His only begotten son?

Do you want to focus on the doctrines of the many churches, or are you willing to focus on the Word of God as it is presented to the world in the Bible?

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was a murder, defined or created Christianity as we know it. Nicea was
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Christ’s church.
The Council of Nicea affirmed the deity of Jesus Christ, painted by
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consciousness of the faith. There is no need to debate Jesus’ completion
because, at that point in time, there were only two people in the
region – Romans and Jews to which it is a fact that black people was the
original Jew. At that conference, Constantine established an official
definition of the Trinity – the deity of The Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit under one God head, in three co-equal and co-eternal Persons.+The main theological issue and focus had always been about Christ or so
His-Story tells us. Since the end of the Apostolic Age and beginning of
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Spirit the One true God? “True God of True God,” “One Being, Three
Persons”, a tri-unity called “Trinity”? Jesus said, “Who do you say that
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not only to be corrupt in part, but to be wholly dead in sin: so that
our nature has need to be created anew, with regard to its qualities,
which can be done by no other power, but by the divine and heavenly, by
which we were first created.

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